Fish Citations

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Channel Catfish

Date of Catch	Angler	Waterbody	Weight	Length
2/15/2009	Ronald Jeffords	Piankatank River		34
2/28/2009	Dwayne Dovel	Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 08 oz.
3/28/2009	Chris Dovel	Shenandoah River	18 lbs., 10 oz.	34 1/2
3/29/2009	Wesley Dean	South Fork Shenandoah River	22 lbs., 05 oz.	38
4/3/2009	John Paige	Back Bay	12 lbs., 01 oz.	32
4/4/2009	Marcus Mitchell	Western Branch Reservoir	12 lbs., 08 oz.	30 1/4
4/5/2009	James Donivan Jr.	Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 04 oz.	27 1/2
4/14/2009	Joseph Keesee, Jr.	Western Branch Reservoir		30
4/17/2009	Stephen Potter	Private Pond	12 lbs., 08 oz.	33
4/17/2009	Robert Mudgett	Back Bay		35 1/2
4/18/2009	Jeremy Eib	Back Bay	14 lbs., 08 oz.	30 1/2
4/18/2009	Jeremy Eib	Back Bay	16 lbs., 03 oz.	35
4/18/2009	James Braford	James River	19 lbs.	33 1/2
4/20/2009	Chris Dovel	Shenandoah River	13 lbs.
4/23/2009	Kenneth Runyon, Jr.	Western Branch Reservoir		30 1/2
4/25/2009	Christopher Young	Private Pond	13 lbs., 07 oz.	30 1/4
4/25/2009	Matthew Minster	Lake Anna	14 lbs., 05 oz.	30
4/26/2009	Stephen Miklandric	Western Branch Reservoir	13 lbs., 12 oz.	31
4/26/2009	Kristopher Bradley	Smith Mountain Lake	13 lbs.	31
4/26/2009	Richard Montgomery	Lake Tecumseh		33
4/26/2009	Richard Montgomery	Lake Tecumseh	14 lbs., 08 oz.	31
4/26/2009	John Cubbage	South Fork Shenandoah River		30
4/26/2009	Cheri Owen	James River	13 lbs., 10 oz.	32
4/26/2009	Kristopher Poston	James River	12 lbs., 09 oz.	31
4/27/2009	Timothy Morton II	James River		30
4/29/2009	Kenneth Runyon, Jr.	Western Branch Reservoir	15 lbs., 06 oz.	32 1/4
4/29/2009	Brendan Deane	Shenandoah River	13 lbs., 12 oz.	28 1/2
4/30/2009	William Lovell, Jr.	New River	12 lbs.	30
5/2/2009	Robert Hensley	Rivanna River		30 1/2
5/2/2009	William Jones	Western Branch Reservoir		31 1/2
5/2/2009	William Jones	Western Branch Reservoir		30 1/2
5/2/2009	Wesley Blankenship	Rural Retreat Lake		30 1/2
5/3/2009	Kenneth Runyon, Jr.	Western Branch Reservoir	14 lbs.	29
5/6/2009	Lynwood Miles Jr.	James River		30
5/7/2009	Richard Montgomery	Lake Tecumseh	15 lbs., 07 oz.	32 1/2
5/7/2009	Richard Montgomery	Lake Tecumseh	13 lbs., 14 oz.	30 1/4
5/8/2009	Lynwood Miles Sr.	Private Pond	13 lbs.
5/8/2009	Lynwood Miles Sr.	James River	12 lbs.
5/8/2009	Thomas Wonders	Buggs Island Lake	13 lbs.	32
5/9/2009	Chris Dovel	Shenandoah River	13 lbs., 02 oz.
5/9/2009	James Butler, II	Western Branch Reservoir	13 lbs., 12 oz.	31
5/10/2009	Chris Dovel	Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 06 oz.
5/11/2009	Bobby Coleman	Lake Gaston	20 lbs., 08 oz.	34
5/12/2009	Kenneth Runyon, Jr.	Western Branch Reservoir	14 lbs.	28
5/12/2009	Kenneth Runyon, Jr.	Western Branch Reservoir	12 lbs., 08 oz.	29
5/14/2009	Justin Thompson	Private Pond	15 lbs., 04 oz.	30
5/16/2009	Chris Dovel	Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 02 oz.
5/16/2009	Timothy Kesterson	James River		30 3/4
5/18/2009	Chris Dovel	Shenandoah River	13 lbs., 08 oz.
5/19/2009	Dwayne Dovel	Shenandoah River	16 lbs., 02 oz.
5/21/2009	Rocky Mabe	Private Pond	12 lbs.	30
5/24/2009	Charles Payne	James River	14 lbs., 11 oz.	30
5/24/2009	Larry Scarborough Jr.	Private Pond		31
5/30/2009	David Lovell	New River	15 lbs.	31
5/30/2009	David Lovell	New River	14 lbs.	31
5/30/2009	Scott Roulo	New River	18 lbs.	32 1/2
5/31/2009	Allen Bowie	Private Pond	14 lbs., 02 oz.	32
5/31/2009	Allen Bowie	Private Pond	14 lbs.	26
5/31/2009	Anthony Smith	Private Pond	22 lbs., 08 oz.	38
6/1/2009	Christopher Walker	New River		31
6/2/2009	Bobby Coleman	Lake Gaston	14 lbs.	31
6/6/2009	Michael Jones	Western Branch Reservoir		31
6/6/2009	Michael Jones	Western Branch Reservoir		31
6/6/2009	Michael Walts	Private Pond		30 1/4
6/6/2009	William Jones	Western Branch Reservoir		30
6/8/2009	Rocky Mabe	Private Pond	15 lbs.	33
6/12/2009	Jonathan Cosby	James River	16 lbs.	32
6/14/2009	David Elvington	Buggs Island Lake	12 lbs., 07 oz.
6/15/2009	Franklin Dalton	Dan River		30 1/4
6/20/2009	Michael Jones	Western Branch Reservoir		30 1/4
6/20/2009	Michael Jones	Western Branch Reservoir		32
6/21/2009	Debra Stackpole	James River	18 lbs.	34
6/23/2009	Nicholas Koenig	Mill Creek	14 lbs., 02 oz.
6/23/2009	Gerald McGhee	Private Pond	12 lbs.	30
7/2/2009	John Cubbage	South Fork Shenandoah River		30
7/3/2009	David Clark	Smith Mountain Lake	13 lbs.	30
7/3/2009	Kevin Carson	Rappahannock River	22 lbs.	37
7/11/2009	Rosemary Thornton	Western Branch Reservoir	12 lbs.	31
7/11/2009	Ivan Brown, Jr.	Potomac River		39
7/11/2009	Ivan Brown, Jr.	Potomac River		36 3/4
7/14/2009	Bobby Coleman	Lake Gaston	14 lbs.	31
7/24/2009	Dennis Trail	Gatewood Reservoir	18 lbs., 04 oz.	34
7/24/2009	Rocky Mabe	Private Pond		30 1/4
7/25/2009	Hunter Reed	Shenandoah River	12 lbs.	30
7/28/2009	Bobby Coleman	Chandlers Mill Pond	13 lbs.	29
8/6/2009	Obaid Rehman	Maury River		30
8/7/2009	Obaid Rehman	Maury River	17 lbs.	34
8/10/2009	Steven Crigger	Claytor Lake	12 lbs., 14 oz.	31
8/13/2009	Lee Rush	Appomattox River	24 lbs., 14 oz.	38
8/16/2009	Leonard Corum	Lake Gaston	16 lbs.
8/16/2009	Daniel James	Potomac River		33
8/20/2009	Garrett Archibeque	Buggs Island Lake	15 lbs., 08 oz.	31
8/22/2009	Thomas Seal	Lake Orange	14 lbs., 03 oz.	27
8/22/2009	Thomas Seal	Lake Orange	14 lbs., 02 oz.	26
8/25/2009	Daniel James	Potomac River		31 1/2
8/28/2009	Leon Bradley	Smith Mountain Lake	12 lbs., 08 oz.	30
8/31/2009	Rocky Mabe	Private Pond		30 1/2
8/31/2009	Benjamin Widmer	Shenandoah River		31 1/2
9/1/2009	Steven Knicely	Chickahominy Lake		30
9/3/2009	Luke Rush	James River	16 lbs., 08 oz.	35
9/3/2009	Rocky Mabe	Private Pond		31 1/4
9/4/2009	Ryan Mallory	Buggs Island Lake	13 lbs., 05 oz.	32
9/11/2009	Derek Mayhew	Private Pond	13 lbs.	32
9/11/2009	Thomas Seal	Lake Orange	15 lbs., 08 oz.	31
9/12/2009	Rodney Vickers	Private Pond	13 lbs., 09 oz.	30 1/4
9/13/2009	Jacob Brown	Private Pond	12 lbs., 02 oz.	30 1/2
9/13/2009	Frank Besier	Lake Smith	14 lbs.	33
9/16/2009	John Cubbage	South Fork Shenandoah River		30 1/2
9/18/2009	Cory Lambert	Shenandoah River	12 lbs., 08 oz.	31 1/2
9/19/2009	Charles Kincaid Jr.	Western Branch Reservoir		31
9/24/2009	Travis Pangle	Private Pond	12 lbs., 08 oz.	35 1/2
9/24/2009	Travis Pangle	Private Pond		30
9/24/2009	Colton Burnshire	Private Pond		30 1/2
9/26/2009	Will Helmick	Private Pond	14 lbs., 12 oz.	33
9/26/2009	Timothy Walts	Rivanna River		32 1/2
9/29/2009	Nicolas Dahlem	Private Pond	12 lbs., 02 oz.	30
9/30/2009	Mark Porter	Burke Lake	22 lbs.	40
10/3/2009	Connor Lane	Private Pond	13 lbs., 02 oz.
10/6/2009	John Cubbage	South Fork Shenandoah River		31 1/2
10/9/2009	Richard Tolley, Sr.	Smith Mountain Lake	14 lbs., 09 oz.	32
10/19/2009	Billy Nelson Jr.	Private Pond		31
10/24/2009	James Bethea	Western Branch Reservoir		32
11/5/2009	Landen Hay	Buggs Island Lake		31
11/9/2009	Shellie Mayton	Private Pond		30 1/2
11/26/2009	James Gregory	Western Branch Reservoir		31 3/4
12/2/2009	Ben Godbolt	Lake Gaston		37
12/26/2009	Michael Jones	Western Branch Reservoir		30 3/4

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